I'm not an expert but I do work at a VFX house: GP's assertion about people working in Hollywood rendering on their workstations 24/7 seems unlikely and your da

I'm not an expert but I do work at a VFX house: GP's assertion about people working in Hollywood rendering on their workstations 24/7 seems unlikely and your data centre vision is more accurate in my experience, where shots are rendered out via dedicated render servers. The ultra-contemporary move is actually to build your pipeline in the cloud.[0] But on-prem, you still need a lot of power in the box when you're working in the scene, and if you just want to bounce out a preview of something small without waiting on the render queue, having that power gives you flexibility. So you're both almost right? EDIT: Oops, leave a tab open for a few hours and come back to find your reply's been scooped. I'll leave this up and add some more links for anyone curious about cloud rendering though[1][2], it's an interesting space. [0] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/weta-digital-advances-visual-effects-and-animation-cloud-aws https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det... [1] https://utopiancorps.com/cloud-rendering/ https://utopiancorps.com/cloud-rendering/ [2] https://www.awsthinkbox.com/studio-in-the-cloud/cloud-rendering https://www.awsthinkbox.com/studio-in-the-cloud/cloud-render...